St. Peter's Square

It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in La Paz, chosen to house those who did not belong to the lineage. Today he is a faithful witness of the events that occur in the center of La Paz..

Your temple, your place, its streets, Its prison and its llauchas constitute the personality of this area, chosen to be an “Indian neighborhood” during the Colony. Nowadays Saint Peter has become a kind of sentinel, from where its inhabitants coexist and deal with the daily events of the busy and often chaotic center of La Paz..

During the Colony, the Choqueyapu River divided the city of La Paz between the north, occupied by families of lineage, and the south, which was a vast field of crops and farms. It was on the other side of the river that, according to several chroniclers, where it was decided to found an “Indian neighborhood”, according to the PIEB publication made by the Mayor's Office of Cultures of La Paz San Pedro, what was the Indian neighborhood.

It was thus that San Pedro took shape from 1700.

The construction of St. Peter's Church ended in 1720, as it is written on the arch of its entrance door, but it was burned during the siege of La Paz carried out by Túpac Katari in 1781.
It took nine years to rebuild.. However, was destroyed again in another indigenous rebellion in 1857 and restored in the Government of Narciso Campero.

In 1888 The Foundation of the “New La Paz” was carried out in the parish of San Pedro, It was decided that the city should grow in its surroundings. At that time, a census was carried out in La Paz that showed that in the neighborhood there were 5.029 inhabitants.